Sam Claflin or Nicholas Hoult?

Clafin is a better actor from what I've seen. A lot more edge to him. A less douchey Alex Pettyfr if you will. Was quite impressed by him in The Riot Club.

But Clafin never had the good fortune to fall into Bryan Singer's influential twink loving orbit like Hoult, so Hoult will have the better career.

Hoult.

I don't think I've seen enough of Clafin's work to judge his acting, but he was fine in The Hunger Games. But both acting-wise and look-wise, I think he lacks a darker edge that Hoult has and has enabled him to succeed in things like The Favourite, Skins and A Single Man. And that makes it possible to picture him in something like Batman, which I don't think would fit Clafin from what I know of him.

I might watch it later today. I like Scherfig's An Education a lot, and I'm fond of her Their Finest/One Day. Will I survive Max Irons' wooden acting, though?

I much prefer Hoult, if only on the strength of Mad Max: Fury Road and The Favourite. Claflin's got potential but he has yet to wow me, although The Nightingale is a promising role that could play into that potential.

The film was based on a stage play (called Posh) about the Bullingdon Club  (an Oxford student society that produces lots of British Prime Ministers like David Cameron and likely-to-be-PM soon Boris Johnson). So the writing is about as subtle as a brick in it's condemnation of these spoiled, elite assholes that are bred to run a Nation (intersting, if sideways, commentary on democracy as well. It's hard to argue the UK is a truly egalitarian society, when these priviledged pricks keep inheriting the reigns of power). The writing wasn't subtle, but it did feel truthful and spot-on.

Cohesive is a good way to describe Clafin's perfornance. He builds to it very well. I just think Clafin's physicality gives him an edge in these type of parts over Hoult. He's a big dude, and with six months in a gym could be built like a fucking tank. You see this  performance and think, yeah....this guy can be Bruce Wayne/Batman. Hoult just skews younger as well.

Adrift is more of a vehicle for Shaeline Woodley. Clafin is solid in it, but I feel he's sort of being wasted in vehicles like this. Guy is just moving in the wrong circles. He's the male equivalent to his Their Finest co-star Gemma Aterton. Really fine and consistent British film leading actors who seem to have little idea how to parlay the Hollywood game effectively.

Then again, there has been a lot of rumours/gossip of Hoult being turned out on the casting couch, and not so for Clafin. So he's probably not willing to do anything  for the brass ring. But I'd actually take him as Batman over both Pattinson and Hoult (though I think Pattinson will turn out well).

Think Clafin could be a dark horse for the next 007 as well, but he needs to work to build up his profile, as every young-ish British actor in his age-range (and even older) seems to be campaigning for the role.

Hoult mainly because of his awesome performance in Mad Max Fury Road ("Oh what a day! What a lovely day!")

I watched the Channel 4 miniseries Any Human Heart recently - one of Claflin's first roles. I wish he had been in the series much more than he actually was.

Neither has impressed me with their acting performance but Clafin is gorgeous af so him.

IT'S A LOVELY DAY!!!